The Proton Energy Pills

The Proton Energy Pills have finally made it on to CD....thanks to Bang! Records. who have just released the "Rocket to Tarrawanna" Album which includes all of the Proton's studio stuff, some demos, live stuff and heaps of great photos & liner notes....you can even buy a copy of the CD here for $20 AUS...just message us and we'll work out the cash, addresses etc...
The following spiel is taken from the excellent compilation CD called Tales From the Australian Underground which was released in 2006 on Tim Pittman's Feel Presents Record Label.
"The Proton Energy Pills were an allegiance of brothers Jay, Lenny and Dave Curley and schoolyard friends Richard (Richie) Lewis and Stewart Cunningham. At the helm was Stewart, a whiz kid guitarist and gifted songwriter who, along with singer and eldest brother Dave, wrote nearly all the bands material including Less Than I Spend(Waterfront, March 1990) the band’s second single. Produced by J Mascis (the singer/guitarist for proto grunge group Dinosaur Jr) and featuring Bill Gibson (the one time backing vocalist for the Lime Spiders and The Eastern Dark), Less Than I Spend is a terrific track. Arguably the last great 7” in a lineage of Australian rock’n’roll that had dated right back to Radio Birdman and their landmark November 1976 release Burn My Eye. Internal friction however meant that the band would only add a mini-album to their catalogue before Stewart decided to leave the band. Jay, Lenny and Richie would then go on to form and garner much success with Tumbleweed, while Stewart did his time with Brother Brick and Asteroid B-612.
As an older generation of Australian underground artists began to deliver a more palatable version of their once jagged sound, a younger generation inspired by the DIY ethic of Australian act the Hard-Ons, and the post-hardcore sound of American groups like Dinosaur Jr, Mudhoney and Sonic Youth seemed destined to shake things up and start all over again. The Meanies, Nursery Crimes, Fur, Madmen(Nee Screamfeeder), Front End Loader and Spiderbait were just some of the bands making noise as were Tumbleweed, a band of late teens/early twenty somethings from the steel town of Wollongong, 70 minutes south of Sydney. Tumbleweed would provide at least two chart albums, numerous chart singles and tour Australia extensively before breaking up in the late 90’s. Before all that could happen, though, the embryo of Tumbleweed could be found in another bunch of longhairs from Wollongong"
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